Mr Paul Hoegger

Paul Hoegger is Coordinator for German at the Language Centre of the University of Cambridge where he has developed a range of general and specialised Language courses, which he also teaches.

He is Principal Examiner and setter for the German Pre-U paper at University of Cambridge International Examinations and teaches weekend courses in German literature at the University’s Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall.

Originally from the Swiss city of Bern he settled in Germany in his late teens to become a ballet dancer. At 35 he moved to Cambridge to read Modern and Medieval Languages.

He holds a BA in French and German and an MPhil in European Literature from the University of Cambridge and has been researching eighteenth-century German drama for his PhD project at the German department of Cambridge University.

Since 2012 Paul has been Supervisor of Studies in German at Fitzwilliam College.